When something wasn’t what it was meant to be….

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I’ve just read a story that made me laugh, so I’m looking for more…

Someone carried their camping chair to a festival, when on arrival realised it was a washing line.

Someone else recited the story of taking their swimming bag to school to find out they’d picked up their mum’s knitting bag.

Another recalled carrying a box with the windbreak in to the beach, only to find they’d taken a Christmas tree.

Please tell me more.

On returning home from popping out to the local shops whilst staying with my late DM,she asked me if I'd realised that I'd left my mobile phone on the coffee table. It was the remote control for the TV.

I was cooking dinner and DH frantically ran to the kitchen tap and started rinsing his mouth out. The more he rinsed, the more black slobber appeared. Between splashes of water he told me the jerky had gone of.

Nope he had chewed on the sachets they put in the absorbe oxygen and keep the jerky (fresh?!) safe!

I once got off a bus with an empty sweet wrapper in one hand and my bus pass in the other, intending to throw the sweet wrapper in the bin. No prizes for guessing which one ended up in the bin.

This thread has cheered me up no end: haven't laughed out loud so much at any other thread, ever!

My poor mum used to tell a story about when sugar rationing was still on in the 1950s. She was really enjoying a rare treat of some chocolate eclair toffees while she read a magazine, until she got down to the last one, when she threw the sweet in the fire and put the wrapper in her mouth!

She was still gutted thirty years later!

This reminded me of a funny story I read years ago. Someone had made a beef casserole and frozen the leftovers in an empty vanilla ice cream tub,but did not put a label on the tub,indicating the contents. A month later they fancied some ice cream....you can guess the rest.

Same here! Best thread this year.

Oh a couple for me, me and dh took our gazebo camping, but instead of the cover to go over the frame, he had mistakenly brought the trampoline cover. It was so hot we put it on the gazebo frame anyway. Yes it looked rubbish!
A painful one for me recently, soaking my contact lenses in ear piercing antiseptic fluid...ouch 😯

I had a stinking cold and ran myself what was supposed to be a relaxing bath and put some Olbas oil in there thinking it would combine with the steam and clear my stuffy nose.

I have never jumped out of a bath so fast in my life! Do not recommend!

Couple of weeks ago friend pulled a can of beer out of the fridge and swigged it down. It was a can of Potts Lamb Stock.

My dad secured his comb-over with fly spray.

Oh god, I’ve remembered another!

Now-DH was running me a bath after work, and informed me he’d put the bath salts that were in the kitchen in the bathroom for me.

I was confused. I never use bath salts and I didn’t remember buying any.

All became clear when I went upstairs and spotted the cardboard cylinder full of my newly-expired cat’s ashes sitting by the side of the bath!

To be fair, it was covered in purple flowers…an easy mistake to make 😀

I got a joint of beef out the freezer the other week. Planned my tea (yorkshires etc). Took the cardboard sleeve off and the meat wasn't beef. Someone had swapped the sleeves and it was a joint of fucking gammon with a honey glaze 😭. I was devastated.

Got to a spa day recently and I'd put 2 bikini tops in my bag instead of a top and a bottom. Had to squeeze myself into a spare pair of tiny bottoms my friend had brought.

Very similar to the OP and still floors me every time I re-tell the story.

Pre kids we went on a beach holiday with SIL and her partner. DH was dead smug to find a lounger in the cupboard and lugged it all the way to the beach. It was BOILING plus we detoured into town to buy some bits so he was sweating like mad. Some light hearted banter from us but he was all "ah yes but you'll be laughing on the other side of your face when I'm lying on my lounger won't you"

It was a travel cot.

I have never laughed so hard in my life. Other people around us worked out what had happened and were also tittering and DH had the biggest, funniest strop. He stormed off to pay for a lounger and set it up with a "none of you fuckers better even think about using this it's all mine"

We go away with them a lot still and we now all have kids which gives us LOTS of opportunities to relive the travel cot story!

Thought I have dropped some chocolate on my arm that had melted, licked my fingers and licked it up to clean it ….. realised it smelled funny. Turned out the cat had a leaky bum situation 😫

Menopause brain fog sent me to work in a pair of enormous stuffed Scooby Doo slippers last winter.
It also caused me to make a lamb casserole in a plastic mixing bowl and place it in the oven. Imagine the mess when I walked into the kitchen a couple of hours later.
However.....
Back in the 80s, stone washed jeans became popular so my sister decided to create her own by putting a pair of her jeans in the washing machine with a load of gravel from the garden.
My mum was mostly unimpressed to see a pair of jeans going round the machine with what appeared to be half of the driveway!

These are hilarious!

Very funny thread. Thank you OP.

Job interview. I'd brought my PowerPoint presentation on a memory stick and opened it on screen to present to the panel. Only it wasn't mine - it was my friend's that I'd borrowed for inspiration when doing my interview prep (and the panel had already seen hers). Mine wasn't on the memory stick at all.

Moving house as a student, all our belongings in black bin bags.

At new flat for about a week.

There was a couple of black bags under the stairs nobody had claimed, each assuming they belonged to somebody else.

Eventually decide to open them up to work out whose they were. Yep, we had taken the full bin sacks with us from our old flat full of rotting food etc. 🥹

On holiday we'd taken stuff for the kids to entertain them whilst waiting for dinner. As dinner came we packed their stuff in the bag. Wed just got back to the apartment when the bag started making meowing noises and we had two kittens in there too. DH took them back to the taverna and was told that they'd done this the previous night to someone else.

DS aged twelve, helping me tidy the bedrooms, came wandering out of his brother's room pulling a face. "That juice tasted horrible! " Turned out his brother had woken in the night too tired to go to the toilet, so had peed into an empty glass on his bedside table. Years later, he still thinks it's hilarious!

My DW is still upset about the time as a just moved out of home teenager she took chilli out of the freezer to defrost before work, and made a pan of rice when she got in-

only to discover the chilli was actually frozen shop bought oxtail soup that someone had given her… being poor she couldn’t afford to waste the soup or the rice so oxtail rice was invented (and apparently disgusting).

Someone brought a tin of cheese biscuits to ours on boxing day that they had been given for Christmas.
When we opened the tin after dinner there was a badger ornament inside and the tin had only been used to keep it safe.